Last week we were talking about Red Cross Holiday Traditions and we received a great story about a tradition-gone-wrong from Red Crosser Joan Savoie in Ontario. Joan’s family gathers together every year on Christmas Eve to relax and exchange gifts...
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Is your disaster kit ready for the end of the world today? An important part of any disaster kit is food. In a real disaster it could take days or weeks before emergency responders are able to reach you. During this festive time of year, we like ...
‘Beware!’ That is the message from various organizations predicting the end of the world on Friday or over the weekend. Doomsday scenarios include the magnetic poles reversing, Earth colliding with an interplanetary object, the planet being consumed ...
Today’s photo comes from the Global Youth Conference that took place this past week in Vienna, Austria. The conference aimed to develop an effective International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent youth strategy. The purpose of the strategy i...
Caroline Belina of Montreal was deployed by the Canadian Red Cross to help those impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Pictured above in a red vest, Belina works alongside former New York Knicks basketball player John Wallace to unload relief supplies at a ...
The Out of the Cold program is a city-wide program in Toronto that the Red Cross supports by providing a hot meal to those in need and operating emergency shelters for Toronto's homeless community. Out of the Cold feeds about 120 people every Saturda...
Effective bystander CPR can save lives, which is something Bran Simon learned first-hand a few weeks ago. After hearing yelling and crying in his apartment building, Bran ran over to see what was wrong and saw a man lying on the floor with no vital s...
Canadians are continuing to help their neighbours in the United States recover from the storm. Red Crosser Nathan Huculak from BC spent the past week in New York, helping the American Red Cross assist people whose lives have been disrupted by Hur...